Ironing-machine.



PATENTED JUNE 23, 1908.

A. S. EMERSON. IRONING MACHINE. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 16, 1906.

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ALFRED S. EMERSON, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

IRONING-MAOHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1908.

Application filed November 16, 1906. Serial No. 343,650.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED S. EMERSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in London, England, have invented certain new .and useful Im )rovements in Ironing-Machines, of. which t e following is a s ecification.

his invention relatesto ironing machines of the class Which work by pressure only, and has for its object to provide an improvement in such machines whereby a better and a larger output of work is secured.

In the'accompan 'ng drawing, Figure 1' is a side elevation part y in section of an ironing machine embodying my improvement and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof.

My improved machine in the form herein lllustrated comprises a central standard 3 on which is mounted a sleeve or collar4rotatable and reciprocatory on the standard, a shoulder 5 being provlded for supporting it when in its lowest position. To this sleeve are fixed in the form of the machine which is illustrated, four radial arms 6, each carrying a table 7 on which tables, the clothes or other articles to be ironed by simple pressure are laid. A stationary head 8 fixed to the top of the standard. 3 carries two radial arms 9, 9 furnished with ironing heads which are constructed in the form of steam chests 10, 10 which are shown as corres onding to the lower tables 7, 7 and arrange in the present illustration, diametrically opposite to each other. These steam chests are provided, on their sides opposite to the tables 7 with suitable surfaces for imparting a smooth or glossy surface to the goods to be ironed. On

opposite sides of the standard are arranged two cylinders 11, 11 with pistons and piston rods or plungers 12, 12 worked by some suitable means, as for instance compressed air. When the compressed air is admitted to the cylinders, the rods or plungers 12, 12.thereof rise under the arms 6, 6 and lift said arms together with the sleeve 4 and the tables 7, 7 and press said tables against the stationary ironing heads. The tables and ironing heads are heated by steam or by electricity or other suitable medium. When steam is used as the heating medium, the tables and ironing heads are made hollow, and channels 13, 14 are constructed in the arms 6, 6 and 9, 9 respectively, for conveying the steam from the standard 3 to the tables and ironing heads, and also conduits 15, 16 for conducting away the water of condensation.

channels'when the arms 6, 6 are in intermediate positions. The steam and drain passages 17, 18 communicate respectively with a steam supply pipe 19, and a drain pipe 20 which may be connected to a suitable steam trap. The sleeve 4 is suitably packed to prevent leakage.

To facilitate the making of the internal piipe connections, the standard 3 may be a vantageously divided longitudinally into three or more sections which may be secured together by bolts or in any other suitable manner. By this construction, the use of flexible pipes for su plying steam to the movable tables 7 and or removing the water of condensation therefrom is obviated and siderably increased.

In this machine, two tables 7, 7 are used simultaneously for pressing the clothes against the two diametrically opposite ironing heads, duringwhich o eration the attendants take ofl the ironed c othes from the two intermediate tables 7, 7 and put fresh clothes thereon ready for the next operation. When the pressing is finished and the tables 7, 7 are again lowered, the sleeve 4 with the arms andtables attached thereto is turned by the attendants through a quarter turn thereby bringing the intermediate tables with the unironed clothes thereon above the cylinders, and removing the tables with the ironed clothes thereon to the intermediate positions, where the ironed clothes can be taken off and replaced by unironed clothes. By arranging the ironing heads diametrically opposite to each other as above described, the standard 3 is subjected to tensile stress only and ample room is provided for each attendant, two generally workin at each machine,

Having thus escribed my invention, I claim:

In an ironing machine, the combination with a standard, a pair of ironing heads mounted thereon, means for admitting steam to said heads for heating the same, means for removing the exhaust therefrom, a sleeve rotatably and reciprocatorily mounted u on said standard, a series of four ressure ta les carried by said sleeve, said tables being provided with steam chambers and supply and position of said tables for raising the same exhaust ports, means within said standard toward the ironing heads.

for supplying and exhausting said chambers and having ports for registering with the ALFRED EMERSON respective ports of supply and exhaust when Witnesses:

the tables are in osltion below the heads, FREDK. L. RAND, and means locate adjacent to the working A. NUTTING. 

